Footballers who have played league football for both PNE and Sheffield Wednesday
K-Z
570) Ken Knighton
PNE 62 apps; 4 goals
Owls 76 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 03/02/1968 v Plymouth (H) – Won 2-0
712) John Lowey
PNE 4 apps; 1 goal
Owls 42 apps; 4 goals
PNE debut 15/08/1987 v Chesterfield (H) – Lost 0-1
827) David Lucas
PNE 122 apps; 0 goals
Owls 69 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 27/04/1996 v Hartlepool (A) – Won 2-0
785) Trevor Matthewson
PNE 12 apps; 1 goal
Owls 3 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 25/08/1993 v Burnley (A) – Lost 1-4
189) David McLean
PNE 49 apps 25 goals
Owls 134 apps; 88 goals
PNE debut 06/11/1909 v Notts Co. (A) – Lost 1-3
121) Jimmy Melia
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Owls 7 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 07/09/1901 v West Brom (A) – Lost 1-3
62) Harry Millar
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Owls 32 apps; 16 goals
PNE debut 24/03/1894 v Nottingham Forest (A) – Lost 2-4
939) Tommy Miller
PNE 7 apps; 0 goal
Owls 17 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 28/11/2006 v Coventry (H) – Drawn 1-1
648) Jimmy Mullen
PNE 1 apps; 0 goal
Owls 229 apps; 10 goals
PNE debut 28/11/1981 v Oxford (A) – Lost 0-3
909) Guylain N’Dumbu-Nsungu
PNE 6 apps; 0 goals
Owls 35 apps; 10 goals
PNE debut 28/09/2004 v Plymouth (H) – Drawn 1-1
965) Eddie Nolan
PNE 40 apps; 0 goals
Owls 4 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 09/12/2008 v Doncaster (H) – Won 1-0
405) Jackie Palethorpe
PNE 24 apps; 15 goals
Owls 28 apps; 13 goals
PNE debut 20/01/1934 v Grimsby (H) – Lost 1-2
626) Eric Potts
PNE 57 apps; 5 goals
Owls 159 apps; 21 goals
PNE debut 26/08/1978 v Sheffield United (H) – Drawn 2-2
487) Eddie Quigley
PNE 52 apps 17 goals
Owls 74 apps; 49 goals
PNE debut 17/12/1949 v Swansea (H) – Won 2-1
833) David Reeves
PNE 47 apps; 12 goals
Owls 17 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 12/10/1996 v Stockport (A) – Lost 0-1
944) Franck Songo’o
PNE 6 apps; 0 goals
Owls 12 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 10/03/2007 v Hull (A) – Lost 0-2
397) George Stephenson
PNE 25 apps; 16 goals
Owls 39 apps; 17 goals
PNE debut 26/08/1833 v Blackpool (A) – Won 2-1
Player Profile – David McLean
David Prophet McLean was born in Forfar on 13 December 1887 and started his career with local clubs Forfar West End, Forfar Celtic and Forfar Athletic. He had trials at Celtic in 1905 but signed for his home town club. In April 1907 McLean joined Celtic and on his competitive debut a league clash at home to Port Glasgow Athletic on 2nd November 1907 he scored a hat-trick as Celtic triumphed 5-0.
Under the prevailing rules he didn't receive a medal for his part in the two championships Celtic won while he was at Parkhead.
Celtic manager Willie Maley was not one to tolerate players who challenged his authority, although he did make some exceptions McLean wasn’t one of them. In November 1909 he was sold to Preston for £400 after scoring 19 goals for Celtic in 28 appearances.
Again he scored on debut in a 3-1 defeat at Notts County on 6 November. A week later he scored a brace on his home debut as Newcastle was defeated 4-0.
McLean scored two further braces in 1909/10 and finished top scorer with 18 league goals from 27 appearances
McLean finished joint top scorer with 7 goals with James Bannister and scored on his last appearance for North End in a 2-0 home win against Spurs on 11 February. McLean had netted 25 goals in 49 appearances
In February 1911 McLean joined Sheffield Wednesday (known as The Wednesday then) for a fee of £1,000. McLean made his Owls debut on 18 February 1911 in a 1-0 win at home to Bury. His first league goal came in the following week scoring the only goal at Sheffield United.
The 1911/12 season McLean was top scorer with 25 league goals from 37 appearances. He scored five braces during the season including one in a 3-2 win at Preston on 30 December. A few days earlier McLean scored four in an 8-0 win against Sunderland on Boxing Day. He also scored a hat-trick on the final day of the season in a 5-1 win at West Brom.
He also won a cap for Scotland, playing against England in a 1-1 draw at Hampden in March 1912 in front of over 127,000 spectators.
He was top scorer again in 1912/13 with a club record 30 goals in 36 league appearances. McLean scored a brace in three of his first four matches of the season and scored nine in total. In the FA Cup he scored four goals in a 5-1 win against Grimsby and a hat-trick in the replay against Chelsea, which finished 6-0. In total McLean scored 38 goals in 40 appearances.
After a disagreement with The Wednesday he left to join Fofar for a few months before returning to Wednesday.
McLean finished second top scorer to Andrew Wilson with 9 goals from just15 appearances in 1913/14. In 1914/15 he scored two hat-tricks in September as Aston Villa were beaten 5-2 and Bradford Park Avenue 6-0.
By the outbreak of the First World War he had played 132 times in the League and had scored 88 goals.
During the conflict he turned out as a guest player with Dykehead then Third Lanark before becoming one of the few to have played for both halves of the Old Firm when he joined Rangers in 1918/19.
McLean scored 29 goals in just 24 matches as Rangers finished second in the League, just one point behind Celtic and was the top scorer in the Scottish League that season.
He made a brief return to Wednesday in 1919 but after the first three matches of the 1919/20 season he moved on to Bradford Park Avenue, then a First Division side. His last appearance for the Owls came in a 3-0 defeat at Middlesborough on 6 September 1919.
McLean was their top league scorer with 18 goals in 1919/20 but was a team in decline though and suffered successive relegations in 1921 and 1922. Despite this he notched up a total of 49 goals in 85 league matches.
By now nearly 35 he had another brief return to Forfar, then signed for Dundee at the start of 1922/23 and ended the season as their top scorer with 22 league goals.
McLean hadn't played in the Scottish Cup while with Celtic and the competition was suspended during WW1, his appearance in the Final for Dundee at the age of 37 in 1925 was an unexpected bonus so late in his career.
He put the Dundee ahead against Celtic after half an hour, Patsy Gallacher sensationally equalised by somersaulting into the net with the ball between his feet. But Jimmy McGrory scored the winner for Celtic with just three minutes left and he was left with a runners-up medal to go with his Scotland cap.
By the time he left Dundee in 1926 he had amassed a further 114 appearances in the League and added 43 goals to his record.
Davie returned home once more to Forfar who were now a Scottish Second Division side and made yet another 'debut' for Forfar scoring in a 2-0 home win over Arbroath in August 1926. His last match was on September 5th 1931, just three months away from his 44th birthday, in a Division Two match away to Arbroath which Forfar lost 2-0.
He is one of a select few to have scored over 100 goals in the top division in both Scotland and England.
David McLean died, aged 80, in Forfar on 23 December 1967.